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The letters "jj" are found only in:

- Dhul'l-jiddah (12 month on Islam's calendar)
- Avijja (ignoring the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
- Hajj (Muslim pilgramage)
- Hajji
- Ujjain (city in India)
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Kuujjuaq, a village in Canada
- Kangiqsualujjuaq, an Inuit (Eskimo for those of you that don't know Inuit) village in Quebec

:D I bet you didn't! (neither did I for most part hehe)
 
The letters "aaa" are found in:

- Kaaawa, a city in Hawaii
- Faaa, a city in Tahiti
- Näätäaaapa, a marsh in Finland (some consider ä and a different though)
- Oueaiaaare means, in Estonian, "edge of a fence around a yard"
- Numerous verbs in Tagalog
- Cavaticovelia aaa, a bug in Hawaii (actually it is a troglobitic mesoveliid) (aaa appears to be Hawaiin for lava tube?)
 
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch is a town in Wales.

Someone, please tell me how to pronounce it. You ris, in particular.

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Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is in Massachusetts.

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LastLegionary said:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch is a town in Wales.

Someone, please tell me how to pronounce it. You ris, in particular.
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"LL" is pronounced like you are coughing up a furball or gathering phelgm in the back of your throat. All the "g's" are hard, "w" is "oo". "Y's" are all open "i" sounds (edit - it would seem not, lol) and "och" is just like the Scottish, "Och I, laddie... I've had bigger pieces of corn in me crap" etc. That's about it I think...

Edit: shite, yeah I ain't Welsh and don't have a clue what I am talking about. Ah well... think got most of it right from guessin' and my old Maths teacher. Stupid leek-eating, sheep fetishists...
 
not welsh, so don't need to know how to pronounce it P

annoyingly, it seems to be the only welsh word some people here do know nuts2

breaking it down into composite word-bits
[note, in welsh, ll is a 'ch' sound made at the back of the throat. y is an 'erh' sound, w is a soft 'ooh', unless at the start of a word, f is a v, r's are rolled]

Llanfair [chlanvair
pwll poochh
gwyn gooerhn
gyll gerhch
gogery gogererh
chwyrndrob chooherhrndrob
wyll ooherhch
-llantysilio chlanterhsilio
gogogoch gogogoch]

incidentally, it was made the longest place name delieberately in the mid-1800s by the victorians as a tourist pull.
 
mate, you were pretty much spot on. especially the ll sound. explains why welsh people always have a cold - it helps pronunciation :D
 
I think they always have colds from the "outdoor" activities they like to engage in. You know, find a nice little field with nobody watching and just go for the nearest...
 
LastLegionary said:
The letters "aaa" are found in:

- Kaaawa, a city in Hawaii
- Faaa, a city in Tahiti
- Näätäaaapa, a marsh in Finland (some consider ä and a different though)
- Oueaiaaare means, in Estonian, "edge of a fence around a yard"
- Numerous verbs in Tagalog
- Cavaticovelia aaa, a bug in Hawaii (actually it is a troglobitic mesoveliid) (aaa appears to be Hawaiin for lava tube?)
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actually, that's not quite correct ... Ka'a'awa is the correct way to spell it and the 'okina, or glottal stop (backwords apostrophe) is an actual character and is considered a letter .. so if you're spelling that word, you'd say "K-a-'okina-a-'okina-a-w-a". Depending on where the 'okina is, it can change the whole meaning of the word. For example:

a'a'a is a network of veins
'a'a'a is the clothlike sheath at the base of a coconut frond

the lava tube thing is 'a'a with a line over the last "a" to elongate the sound.

test on Monday everyone.

:D
 
LastLegionary said:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch is a town in Wales.

Someone, please tell me how to pronounce it. You ris, in particular.
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Must be hell to write a letter to someone in that town.
 
hehehehe, in wales the place is known as llanfair-p-g, just because pronouncing it is such a 10minute affair. i wonder if a letter addressed that way would work? :D
 
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